Nature Justice

The pandemic that we are observing right now should end up making us compassionate towards nature, optimal resource consumer, a thoughtful and a better human being. The tiring lockdown must make us think about the lifestyle that we have been living in. We need to introspect how we are interdependent on each other for all walks of life. Be it the small mobile stall run by the migrant worker or the greater facilities that we have come to enjoy on account of infrastructure and technological development, there is the differential utility of each one of them out there. For the last few decades, we have been increasingly observing the taking over of the air, water and noise pollution in our lives. These have been causing havoc in our day to day lives and were responsible for many side-effects. They have affected our health by making us sick and caused us mental distress. We have come to accept urbanization as the new normal, yet almost knowing that we are letting go of the basic element of simplicity from it.

Many people have been posting pictures of animals kept in confinements for purposes like food, entertainment, domestic pets and for their own conservation reasons. This virtual jail that we have been put to should make us realize the importance of liberty and freedom of mobility in space. It must be felt that animals are subjected to the same dilemma in a rather more forceful and draconic way than that we are subjected to right now. This is not even 2 weeks and we are even not chained to an unhygienic dark corner. We can cook our own food and have plethora of facilities to keep us entertained. We could even chat with the neighbor and remain hopeful for the future. These are faraway realities for these caged living beings. Our blindfolded consumerism must be resolved sustainably. 

For the past century, we have destroyed forests indiscriminately and polluted our pristine rivers mindlessly. In the process, we hardly realized that more than 20% of the fauna has been extinct! Yet, more animal and plant species are on the verge of extinction because we have occupied their spaces. Humans are intricately dependent on the presence of the animals and plant species around them. We could not survive far if we go on to lose them one by one. They are part of the natural chain of events that play a crucial role in the maintenance of the ecosystem around us. They indirectly provide us several free of cost services that we are not aware of. That’s how our ancestors had been worshipping different plants and animals and made them a holy part of the culture. The outbreak has surfaced the invincibility of human race and its mortality. 

For the time being, as nature has given us a chance to rethink on our lifestyles, I congratulate you for having enjoyed the pure air, less with the vehicular and industrial pollutants; the blue & red skies without the presence of smog and dust; the noiseless and vehicle-less spaces that had made our lives upside down… We may not have to make these vehicles as our status symbol knowing the fact that these are resource-draining and pollute our blue planet.

Meanwhile, China has lifted a 76 days lockdown from Wuhan, the outbreak center of COVID-19…

#Breathe